TELEGRAM TO M. I. FRUMKIN AND A. G. BELOBORODOV

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Frumkin,Authorised Representative
of the People’s Commissariat for Food.
Beloborodov, Labour Army Council
Rostov

Despiteyour No. 4960/R, the centre continues to
receive information from various sources: from Orjonikidze
in Tiflis, from Musabekov, Azerbaijan People’s Commissar
for Food in Baku, concerning inadequacy of the measures
taken to supply Baku with foodstuffs, which threatens
further complications. Put this question up for special
discussion by Labour Army Council. Take resolute
measures to supply Baku and simultaneously Georgia and
Armenia, and, in accordance with No. 293, keep the centre
regularly informed of actual supply measures. Reply
immediately by
telegram.[1]

LeninChairman, Council of Labour and Defence

April15, 1921

[1]Thelast sentence is in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.